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What is zero-waste?
If we are to reclaim and re-purpose waste material, it only makes sense not to create our own. That’s why we adhere to a strict zero-waste policy in our production and distribution.
Working with offcuts means we try to avoid sending perfectly good materials to a landfill. Zero-waste is the approach where you appreciate everything in your disposal and never discard something that can be useful, if not to yourself maybe to someone else.
What we do
We design with sustainability in mind, planning and executing everything with precision, maximizing the use of our fabrics.
But there’s waste, right? Well no, we collect everything, even our leftover threads and we do a lot of head-scratching and try to come up with ways to use them further. Most of our smaller products, like the Alice pouches and our Gyan bunting, for example, are made exclusively from our own offcuts. We design products based on what we have available, and the cutting floor is full of perfectly good scraps.
There’s still stuff that gets left behind? We process them further, make them into stuffing for cushions, pet toys, so many things!
Our target
There’s still a lot of things to be done. For example, what to do with our rivets and metal parts? We re-use them as many times as possible. What about the zips?
Our target is to be 100% zero-waste. And not only with our products but with the full product life cycle. This is why we have Project Zero, we want to take responsibility for everything we release on this planet.
